Riverpod, email clients, and lessons paid for in complexity
A post-project note on building a custom Flutter email client, where state management, protocols, and production UX all had opinions.
Notes index
Things I learned while trying to make the software behave.
Some posts are polished. Some are old enough to show the awkward phase. That is the point: a record of shipped work, stuck work, and the judgment that accumulates between them.
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02 First client, real stakes
A transition note about starting Viridian Software, taking on client work, and learning how different production responsibility feels from personal experiments.
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03 Deployment is where optimism gets audited
A note from the nearly-finished phase, where the product works locally and the remaining enemy is getting it deployed without spending money.
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04 Site online, ecosystem survived
A launch note from the first version of this site, with Astro doing the rare thing: making the JavaScript ecosystem feel pleasant.
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05 Dates, clients, and the solo-build tax
A field note from building a full-stack application around date logic, client constraints, and the parts of solo work that do not show up in tidy diagrams.
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06 The finish line moved, then I crossed it
A short wrap-up after a long full-stack project, with a reminder that finishing software is a different skill from starting it.
